So pile up all these rocks so that in 10,000 years some archeologist can come along and question the what, why and who and make up stories about all of it. Piles of rock in relation to alignment to constellations and human sacrifice n all that. Thats all the Egyptians was doing was just piling up rocks so the could plant.
G'day from Australia and an old '9' man from the 70s when I worked for the Hydro Electric Commission of Tasmania. I worked a 9 and from time to time a 355 Komatsu in a quarry producing rock fill for the hydro power dams back in the day. Mostly 9s as the yankee steel in the under carriage was better suited to the hard basalt and granite. Now retired but still with cat yellow flowing through my veins. Thanks for the videos.
Thank you so much for telling about what happened on Load up of very Heavy piece of Equipment. Its great FYI. Your advice on never loaning your Truck & Trailer to anyone, good advice, have seen so many times if the person doesn't pay the repair costs, they just don't care what happens to equipment, they are just getting a paycheck to work.
Reminds me of the first load of logs I hauled to the mill in grass valley ca. in '72 , the load got unloaded and I forgot to put the reach pin back in , pulled right out of the reach , hoses and all !!!! Sweet ! I'm 73 now and still feel the heat ! Cheers 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
A big YES, there is so much plastic on heavy equipment nowadays. I remember the older Cat Artic- Loaders where everything was metal and steel. Now they have so many plastic parts.
The old machines are the best machines. The new machines would have thrown several codes before the job was done. Lol😂😂. Some CAT college boy that never sat in a dozer would need to come out, for $3,500.00, and clear a bunch of codes. I never realize how much I hated technology in heavy equipment until I read my comment! 😂 Love the old steel Jeff, thanks for taking us along!
Great video Jeff always enjoy watching you work Killdozer there's definitely an art to pushing rock and not flat out destroy a machine. Ya Killdozer has taken a beating but it still can do the work. With your maintenance and care hopefully you'll get the other D9H done to relieve the work load on your D9G. Thanks for sharing stay safe Jeff.
Must be one of them new track rollers took a dump. 2:50, lefthand side, just forward of the sprocket. She's just danglin. On the neck links, I used to link the up at 90 degree with retainers, so they wouldn’t drag on the ground. Love the video. Hard job.
I’m sure you already know about the worn out rollers, this video brings back memories of many hours of moving equipment. When I was a teenager my dad sent me and a 3T cat to the neighbors house to clear a few palmettos, I slid the cat off the lowboy sideways and of course the track came off and the belly pan was stuck between the lowboy tires and the side rail of the lowboy, dad wasn’t very happy with me, but with his experience he was able to get the cat off the lowboy with only one track. I didn’t tell you I made a turn way too sharp and drove the lowboy into a ditch. It was a learning experience for me. You remind me so much of my dad. He was the man. Happy trails.
It's amazing.... sitting here in the process of recovering from hip replacement surgery watching your video. I can literally still feel what jobs like this do to both the equipment and the operator. While the video title is appropriate to be sure it could perhaps also include the fact that, over time, in my case 45 years, it also destroys the operator(s) as well.
@@Jpaydirt Surprising enough no. Doctors impressed upon me very early on that should I still wish to walk into my 40's and beyond I may wish to reconsider that option tho I did carry my wallet while driving trucks and pickups, riding Harley, etc.... of course I was a "tuff guy" and wouldn't let that bother me....probably didn't help myself there, eh?
@@mattberg916 unless you happen to be a very lucky individual it very well could. It's all fun and games until you have to be carried into the doctors office because you literally can't standup or walk. It's all something to be joked about and snickered at until they have to do emergency surgery on you to keep the blown disc in your neck from backing out and crushing your spinal cord in two.... I could go on.... jus sayin'.
A few dodgy track rollers under there, maintenance on crawlers has always been hard to predict. About the only thing you can count on is if you don't look often the cost WILL go up. good luck with the job.
I’ve been hauling these wind tower sections up past Craters of the Moon, and driving through there a couple weeks ago, I was still seeing snow down in some of the crevices along the highway. It’s hard to describe to someone who’s never been there what terrain looks like. I just know that I wouldn’t have wanted to be there when it was created!😂
When you pushed up that old sofa, I was thinking, "man those rocks are really sticking together, then NO WAY those rocks are sticking like that." Then I realized what it was...😄😄😄
Thank you for pushing grading ROCK pile Lesson. YES you are so,so Right about old Cat iron. It is built Cat tuff. I just look at the control Lever lay out, how over built the Levers were. Everything from cab to blade was tuff stuff😊 I watched a Dump truck dump in a gravel pit. And the company had put protection over cylinders on front wide track Cat modern Dozer blade, for push out of waste pile the Dumps were bringing in from new wherehouse haul out of wet muddy Dirt.
Boy by the looks of things....It was good that you went to Minnesota and picked up those tracks and rails. Poor "Kill Dozer" is on it's last leg when it comes to pads, rails, and pins.
What year is a D9H? This legendary machine was originally introduced in 1974 and replaced the D9G. The D9H was the last version of the D9 series prior to the introduction of the elevated sprocket design.
Require a helluva lot of patience and careful operating JPay…and some more ‘other stuff’ to keep going. Loved the way you handled your own ‘dumb shite’…CLASSIC! Go for it ~ great sharing in your woes AND successes… Great machines you believe in, care for. Just super great, your work, all round. Beste from the Fairest Cape Winelands… 👊🔥⁉️ Just keep at it and hold tightly onto your sense of humour!!
Your left hand lower roller the second one from the rear is shot, when you were trying to connect the trailer I noticed this roller moving around .is the rear most roller a single flange?
You're an artist with the old Cat equipment.And,you are 100% correct: new equipment is in no way built like the old iron. Too many corners been cut in design and built in durability. See it on everything.
Thanks for the video jeff, it was awesome, and just like what @nfarnell had mentioned there are a few rollers that need replacing, I get it, I'm sure that there not cheap, but anyways...keep them viges coming. (Viges) isn't that what MR. LOGGER WADE says...lmao,😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks jeff, ya I dont get to talk much on here, I have left messages, but ya can't get to them all...but y dont u do the white board any more...I'm just an ex driver operated some equipment, I'm 53 54 this yr and I have type 2 diabetes, lost a few toes, lost a shit load of weight, whatever, but we, I bin watching u for shit 4+ no 5+yrs now, loved when the cat was down and u anx the boys worked hard on the final drives what was the pressure of that close to 30,000 40,000 lbs...fu(k sorry blew us away...just wanted to say thank u fer the heart, well thank u fer the awesome videos sir....enjoy..
Put some WD 40 in the tool box and squirt it on the rollers , and that'll work for another week or so. And I have seen you with the welder and a hammer ⚒️ and I think you can get it done 👍..I E Mailed Frank off your friends list and the boys too on the company site that is coming out of your pay😂..! Enjoy the memorial day weekend Jeff
Got a quote from my dealer, just rollers, front idler's and chains with pads and new sprocket segments, oh and the pads I would have to bolt on as they wouldn't come assembled........drum roll please.....65 K and this was 5 years ago
An employee would have brought the trailer back and asked who bent the plate’s because it was like that when I started😀. You will have to keep a “beater” dozer around for these jobs
I hate those kinda days it's like when dumb stuff happens it's like a day your in one of those dazes and you knew you should stayed home that day when you leave lol
Man, 8 hrs of that would really beat up the operator too! That’s quite a pile of rock. I’d be setting up a crusher to make road base or concrete aggregate from it. Seems a shame to just pile it up.
@@Jpaydirt thank you Jay. I have tried every aftermarket used outfit in the country, even cat with no avail, need a transcooler hardine, have braised this 1000 times now time for a new one
Look in machinery trader under dismantled machines or see if you can find someone who could bend on up using yours for a pattern, I do that for the steel lines that run through the bowl on the 637's and then I remove the ends and weld them back on the new pipe, CAT used some kind of high chromium steel in some of those pipes and they are impossible to weld, your other option is a hose but it would have to be a big one to carry the same flow as the steel but wouldn't have to be rated any more than 1,000 psi which would cut down on the overall size of the hose
Oh one more option, if it's obsolete ask your dealer parts guy to call CAT and get the print, my dealer did it for me all the time, I just keep it to myself and didn't hand them out to anyone else
Maybe you said where the concrete came from I missed it or it’s from a previous video is that concrete all from like an abandoned freeway right there that they tore up as a massive pile of concrete? Make sure you got good air filters
My back got sore just watching the video. Hopefully next time you're in MN you will be able to take in some of the sights. If you would of went through Minneapolis you could have swung into Zeigler Cat and checked them out 🤷♂️
It doesn't seem worth the effort to move all that rock - there is a lot of clean farmland in the U.S. elsewhere to be used for crops or grazing. Crazy!
It's funny how when you build a road the rocks always sink but when you're farming they keep coming up 😅
gravity LOL
I can testify to that Warren picked up hundreds of tons of the bastards here in Australia....
Welcome to farming.
So pile up all these rocks so that in 10,000 years some archeologist can come along and question the what, why and who and make up stories about all of it. Piles of rock in relation to alignment to constellations and human sacrifice n all that. Thats all the Egyptians was doing was just piling up rocks so the could plant.
@@martinswiney2192 we just threw them on the truck and then chucked them off!!!! What a waste of a life!!!
Jeff calling 1/4 plate tin is my favorite!
G'day from Australia and an old '9' man from the 70s when I worked for the Hydro Electric Commission of Tasmania. I worked a 9 and from time to time a 355 Komatsu in a quarry producing rock fill for the hydro power dams back in the day. Mostly 9s as the yankee steel in the under carriage was better suited to the hard basalt and granite. Now retired but still with cat yellow flowing through my veins. Thanks for the videos.
Thank you so much for telling about what happened on Load up of very Heavy piece of Equipment. Its great FYI. Your advice on never loaning your Truck & Trailer to anyone, good advice, have seen so many times if the person doesn't pay the repair costs, they just don't care what happens to equipment, they are just getting a paycheck to work.
Reminds me of the first load of logs I hauled to the mill in grass valley ca. in '72 , the load got unloaded and I forgot to put the reach pin back in , pulled right out of the reach , hoses and all !!!! Sweet ! I'm 73 now and still feel the heat ! Cheers 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Look at that second track idler on the left side looks like the bearing are out 2.51 into the video love your stuff keep up the great work
Yeah there is a few cow belled rollers. The rails, sprockets and pads are worn out as well..
Built to be rebuilt, was the slogan when I was an apprentice. No plastic to be seen on any machine.
A big YES, there is so much plastic on heavy equipment nowadays. I remember the older Cat Artic- Loaders where everything was metal and steel. Now they have so many plastic parts.
Just look at the glass bottle at 11:00
@@taurus4205
Is that part of something on the Cat Grader, that CAT built into the machine, just asking?????
"I don't loan my trailer, rent my trailer, I just break it myself..."
Rollers rollers rollers😮
the F...... up stops here LOL
those poor rollers, you can almost hear them scream and the poor pins getting rung all about
That's how a man makes money.
The old machines are the best machines. The new machines would have thrown several codes before the job was done. Lol😂😂. Some CAT college boy that never sat in a dozer would need to come out, for $3,500.00, and clear a bunch of codes. I never realize how much I hated technology in heavy equipment until I read my comment! 😂 Love the old steel Jeff, thanks for taking us along!
Great video Jeff always enjoy watching you work Killdozer there's definitely an art to pushing rock and not flat out destroy a machine. Ya Killdozer has taken a beating but it still can do the work. With your maintenance and care hopefully you'll get the other D9H done to relieve the work load on your D9G. Thanks for sharing stay safe Jeff.
Must be one of them new track rollers took a dump. 2:50, lefthand side, just forward of the sprocket. She's just danglin.
On the neck links, I used to link the up at 90 degree with retainers, so they wouldn’t drag on the ground.
Love the video. Hard job.
I’m sure you already know about the worn out rollers, this video brings back memories of many hours of moving equipment. When I was a teenager my dad sent me and a 3T cat to the neighbors house to clear a few palmettos, I slid the cat off the lowboy sideways and of course the track came off and the belly pan was stuck between the lowboy tires and the side rail of the lowboy, dad wasn’t very happy with me, but with his experience he was able to get the cat off the lowboy with only one track. I didn’t tell you I made a turn way too sharp and drove the lowboy into a ditch. It was a learning experience for me. You remind me so much of my dad. He was the man. Happy trails.
It's amazing.... sitting here in the process of recovering from hip replacement surgery watching your video. I can literally still feel what jobs like this do to both the equipment and the operator. While the video title is appropriate to be sure it could perhaps also include the fact that, over time, in my case 45 years, it also destroys the operator(s) as well.
did you sit on your wallet all those years? curious because I hurt from that
@@Jpaydirt Surprising enough no. Doctors impressed upon me very early on that should I still wish to walk into my 40's and beyond I may wish to reconsider that option tho I did carry my wallet while driving trucks and pickups, riding Harley, etc.... of course I was a "tuff guy" and wouldn't let that bother me....probably didn't help myself there, eh?
@@idroadking that tough guy thing will catch up! I'm not liking either
@@mattberg916 unless you happen to be a very lucky individual it very well could. It's all fun and games until you have to be carried into the doctors office because you literally can't standup or walk. It's all something to be joked about and snickered at until they have to do emergency surgery on you to keep the blown disc in your neck from backing out and crushing your spinal cord in two.... I could go on.... jus sayin'.
@@idroadking got a few replacement parts myself. God bless, buddy
A buddy use to say the only thing on old Cat equipment that is not metal is the shift knobs. Good stuff.
A few dodgy track rollers under there, maintenance on crawlers has always been hard to predict. About the only thing you can count on is if you don't look often the cost WILL go up. good luck with the job.
gettin my moneys worth😃
@@Jpaydirt The title of the video "How to Destroy a Bulldozer" .. yep .. NEGLECT THE MAINTENANCE !!
Thanks for Your time and efforts Jeff.
Best Wishes. 👍
i smell a d9 "series" coming up. good work anderson const ! the wallets are incredible order em up people !
I’ve been hauling these wind tower sections up past Craters of the Moon, and driving through there a couple weeks ago, I was still seeing snow down in some of the crevices along the highway. It’s hard to describe to someone who’s never been there what terrain looks like. I just know that I wouldn’t have wanted to be there when it was created!😂
Thanks for the video Jeffrey great job pushing the rocks 👏 nicely done 👍❤❤. Take care of yourself and family and Griffery and be Blessed ❤️❤️.
When you pushed up that old sofa, I was thinking, "man those rocks are really sticking together, then NO WAY those rocks are sticking like that." Then I realized what it was...😄😄😄
Thank you for pushing grading ROCK pile Lesson. YES you are so,so Right about old Cat iron. It is built Cat tuff. I just look at the control Lever lay out, how over built the Levers were. Everything from cab to blade was tuff stuff😊 I watched a Dump truck dump in a gravel pit. And the company had put protection over cylinders on front wide track Cat modern Dozer blade, for push out of waste pile the Dumps were bringing in from new wherehouse haul out of wet muddy Dirt.
17:00 That ain't no moon!
You dont never learn nothin if you dont break stuff when you need to learn something. Thats how i got where i am today. Breaking things.
Boy by the looks of things....It was good that you went to Minnesota and picked up those tracks and rails. Poor "Kill Dozer" is on it's last leg when it comes to pads, rails, and pins.
any guesses on how long I can go
@@Jpaydirt Until you can't move!! My guess is this winter.
Grew up a bit north of Idaho Falls. Thanks for sharing the beauty of SE Idaho
can you imagine a new operator on that job with a fresh machine ,wouldnt be much left after a day or so !
another great vid ,thanks
Well you are now a certified mucker upper.. 😂
That D9 is just a beast.
What year is a D9H?
This legendary machine was originally introduced in 1974 and replaced the D9G. The D9H was the last version of the D9 series prior to the introduction of the elevated sprocket design.
3:13 "giggly roller"
That is the problem with full Rock guards ,they hide obvious problems with lower track rollers.
Require a helluva lot of patience and careful operating JPay…and some more ‘other stuff’ to keep going.
Loved the way you handled your own ‘dumb shite’…CLASSIC!
Go for it ~ great sharing in your woes AND successes…
Great machines you believe in, care for.
Just super great, your work, all round.
Beste from the Fairest Cape Winelands…
👊🔥⁉️
Just keep at it and hold tightly onto your sense of humour!!
Loved the history / geology lesson
I saw a recliner in the rock pile. You'll have a place to relax when you take a break.
Thanks Jeff, don’t know if you can hear it, but there is a intermittent “flutter” or slight miss when she is under load. Injector going bad?
You need Alkaline batteries in you hearing aids LOL
@@Jpaydirt I reckon you are right, had em turned up too. 😂 Have a listen to the video when the camera is outside facing the blade behind the stack.
At around 19:08. Mite needa poot soma dat dere jecta cleanr in it mister. Maybe I need to put some in my ears too.
LOL you need a rock crushing maching out there. Turn that in to peppbles and deco rocks.
really likes the way you think Jeff.
That is a lot of rock and alot of pushing!
Has the wife ever put a toy bull dozer on top of your birthday cake with. Swirls in front of the dozer and smooth frosting behind it.
😆😆
When I turned 40 the cake had a hole being dug and a toy dozer getting ready to bury 39
@@Jpaydirt you have to tell that on video some day.
Your left hand lower roller the second one from the rear is shot, when you were trying to connect the trailer I noticed this roller moving around .is the rear most roller a single flange?
Made before the days the bean counters took control from the engineers,
Guy: the bearings are bad on your lower rollers. Jeff: what bearings? 😆 Lol...
311 likes from Chechnya. well done keep going 👍
At 2:45 to 2:56 you can see the idler on the left swingarm forward of the final drive is just swinging around in air. Might want to look at that.
I try not to look at it LOL
Every hour you can get out of that undercarriage is one less hours wear on the new stuff. Run it till it won’t run no more.
You're an artist with the old Cat equipment.And,you are 100% correct: new equipment is in no way built like the old iron. Too many corners been cut in design and built in durability. See it on everything.
If it's stuck force it if it breaks it needed replacing anyways😅😅😅
13:30 looks like a chair trying to blend in with the rock pile.
Ah just a heads up if you did not notice it ya had a trashed out bottom roller on the left tract frame.
Starts excellent sounds good
If you had all them rocks down at the snake river you could fix that diversion dam right! 😊
and then some
Man u need to tighten up the side play in that blade,, did they make a c frame angle blade for a d 9 g
They have been pulling rocks out of them fields for 10 thousand years it looks like.
Thanks for the video jeff, it was awesome, and just like what @nfarnell had mentioned there are a few rollers that need replacing, I get it, I'm sure that there not cheap, but anyways...keep them viges coming. (Viges) isn't that what MR. LOGGER WADE says...lmao,😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks jeff, ya I dont get to talk much on here, I have left messages, but ya can't get to them all...but y dont u do the white board any more...I'm just an ex driver operated some equipment, I'm 53 54 this yr and I have type 2 diabetes, lost a few toes, lost a shit load of weight, whatever, but we, I bin watching u for shit 4+ no 5+yrs now, loved when the cat was down and u anx the boys worked hard on the final drives what was the pressure of that close to 30,000 40,000 lbs...fu(k sorry blew us away...just wanted to say thank u fer the heart, well thank u fer the awesome videos sir....enjoy..
messages? where
Fascinating history to the land there...In term's of this planet's history, 10,000 years is very young, that's alot of windblown soil deposited.
That's a lot of rocks, David UK.
great video Jeff .. I hope you charged at least $250.0000 parts are hard to find and very dollar hungry 🙃😉😊😊🛠⚒🔧🔧
Would your be interested in a cat 1693ta?
Put some WD 40 in the tool box and squirt it on the rollers , and that'll work for another week or so. And I have seen you with the welder and a hammer ⚒️ and I think you can get it done 👍..I E Mailed Frank off your friends list and the boys too on the company site that is coming out of your pay😂..! Enjoy the memorial day weekend Jeff
Could see a few rollers LHS rear need replacing Jeff when you loaded it on the float
just curious of how much an under carriage rebuild on that rig would cost retail.
Got a quote from my dealer, just rollers, front idler's and chains with pads and new sprocket segments, oh and the pads I would have to bolt on as they wouldn't come assembled........drum roll please.....65 K and this was 5 years ago
@@Jpaydirt wow
What are your thoughts on the swichblade on dozer now that it’s been on there for a few years?
I love it, it's cleared up the smoke and it has better power
An employee would have brought the trailer back and asked who bent the plate’s because it was like that when I started😀. You will have to keep a “beater” dozer around for these jobs
Got rocks? Jeff aka Kill dozer master Wins!
Wow, if someone wanted to bring their crusher in, there is quite a bit of good quality material there to be processed.
How big are the fields out there paydirt deseil
Even a rocking chair is a rock by the looks of it bro, does that mean ya bury a couch in potatoes. Great video by the way too. Safe travels.
yes thats a couch potato and it seems to have been bad so it ended up here LOL
I hate those kinda days it's like when dumb stuff happens it's like a day your in one of those dazes and you knew you should stayed home that day when you leave lol
@8:00 I wish I had a pile of Rock that big , My Stream Bank Worries would be over
That would be a heck of a job to bury all those rocks!
IT BREAKS MY HEART WHEN I SEE A SOLID D8 09 AROUND HERE THAT SOMEONE DOES NOT USE ANYMORE. IT SITS AND ROTS TILL ETERNITY
loose roller bottom left on killldozer
The old cat stuff was the best
Fred flintstone yaba daba doo.
If you were to put a new dozer on that pile of rock it been broke in no time !!
looks like you have a rear left inside roller out on the 9,seen it when you loaded it on the trailer.
Needs some rollers. Lol
Bye the time you get that pile pushed up your going to need those newer tracks you bought
A big rock pile? Massive
Man, 8 hrs of that would really beat up the operator too!
That’s quite a pile of rock. I’d be setting up a crusher to make road base or concrete aggregate from it. Seems a shame to just pile it up.
That white/light gray volcanic rock is very high in silica and that makes it less than ideal to run through a crusher.
plus there's all the iron and couches
botton roller look like its past its fly buy date
oh no that baby could go the rest of the year
Hey!!! Was that an ole rockin chair up there? Rock on there😅😂
couch potato
Not bad for a one eyed crazy man like me !! Lol Black smoke & yellow paint makes me feel funny where I pee lol
Jay I have 2 d9g's 66a's have a hard time finding certain parts, any suggestions?
aftermarket, junk yard, dismantled machines, or buy some for parts
@@Jpaydirt thank you Jay. I have tried every aftermarket used outfit in the country, even cat with no avail, need a transcooler hardine, have braised this 1000 times now time for a new one
Look in machinery trader under dismantled machines or see if you can find someone who could bend on up using yours for a pattern, I do that for the steel lines that run through the bowl on the 637's and then I remove the ends and weld them back on the new pipe, CAT used some kind of high chromium steel in some of those pipes and they are impossible to weld, your other option is a hose but it would have to be a big one to carry the same flow as the steel but wouldn't have to be rated any more than 1,000 psi which would cut down on the overall size of the hose
Oh one more option, if it's obsolete ask your dealer parts guy to call CAT and get the print, my dealer did it for me all the time, I just keep it to myself and didn't hand them out to anyone else
Thank you Jay. Much love from nome alaska
Maybe you said where the concrete came from I missed it or it’s from a previous video is that concrete all from like an abandoned freeway right there that they tore up as a massive pile of concrete?
Make sure you got good air filters
it's lava rock from the potato fields
KT3406E sent me over to check out your channel, He said you got Bulldozer stuff!
got a bearing out on a roller
My back got sore just watching the video. Hopefully next time you're in MN you will be able to take in some of the sights. If you would of went through Minneapolis you could have swung into Zeigler Cat and checked them out 🤷♂️
THAT'S A LOT OF ROCK FROM THAT FIELD. WHO KNEW?
So u getting wider tracks for the dozer?
Yes as the pads on those half price tracks are 27" and the standard is 24"
@@Jpaydirt nice
It doesn't seem worth the effort to move all that rock - there is a lot of clean farmland in the U.S. elsewhere to be used for crops or grazing. Crazy!
Jeff has a few loose teeth after that
hyey jeff question why dont you get a track loader to push them piles up i think it would be easyer
Do they make a D9 sized one LOL
@@Jpaydirt that im not sure of
@@Jpaydirt I'm sat here waiting for the ''Why don't you buy a 983 Jeff...?'' comment...!?! It's-a-comin' I'm sure.... 😉
Right on
That type of trailer seems to have a lot of issues with that design?
Big iron. King.
Damn, Jeff no care at all for the sofa/recliner? Lol
I promise I won't tell Frank 😆😆😆
That would be one dusty pile to crush..